The co-first and co-corresponding author phenomenon in the pharmacy and anesthesia journals
Journal
Association for Information Science and Technology
Journal Volume
53
Journal Issue
1
Pages
1-4
Date Issued
2016
Author(s)
Abstract
ABSTRACT In this poster, we describe partial findings from a larger study that explored the co‐first and co‐corresponding author phenomenon in two biomedical research areas, pharmacy and anesthesia. The top 10 journals in the two areas by the five‐year impact factor as listed in 2013 JCR were used for the paper sources. A total of 17802 pharmacy papers and 35801 anesthesia papers were included in the analyses. Each paper was manually examined to identify the co‐first and co‐corresponding author papers. In this poster, we will show the distributions of the paper numbers and percentages of the co‐first and co‐corresponding papers over twenty years (1995–2014), the distributions of author numbers sharing the co‐first and co‐corresponding authorship, and the combinations and distributions of the authors' byline positions.
Type
journal article